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I’m toiling away at the part-time gig on a cover story about women in technology. This is a subject I thought would be fairly easy to write. Turns out I was wrong.

As with most topics, I get an idea in my mind for how I see the article shaping up. I knew I wanted to touch on how women use technology, and how many women work in the career field (FYI, it’s less that you would like to think but more than you would imagine).

I had an interview on Tuesday with one of the producers for Girls Gone Geek. I asked her about the attrition rate for women in tech. And while she agreed, she mentioned that a lot of women who leave the field, turn to other outlets that keep them in touch with Web 2.0 such as blogging.

Oh really? I thought blogging was starting to go out of vogue. All the stay-at-home mommies have one these days. What’s the next new and exciting thing? Twitter, maybe. Then everyone in the world will know the instant I wipe my nose. I’m a bit of a fan of Pownce.

I still like the blogging though. I don’t know if anyone reads it, and I finally gave up trying to generate a mult-national audience. It holds great appeal to the writer part of my brain.

A recent article in Writer’s Digest summed it up for me nicely.

I assumed that writing a blog would be like writing a non-edited column that could cover anything as long as it had something to do with writing. Plus, I could post images and videos. This was my chance to let my voice explode into the world with no editor to gird and grind it down, strip its potentially award-winning uniqueness. Finally, I thought, people will see me, the real me, the uncut director’s version of me. And they’ll love it.

The rest of Web 2.0 can wait. I’m going to stay here for just a bit longer.